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• n  the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs
• v  call forth
• v  lay spawn
  The salmon swims upstream to spawn

• The caricature of a cult head in a news daily has spawned hundreds of lawsuits across the country.
• Going by the number of low-waisted pants that have spawned lately, it appears to me that fashion, like history, repeats itself.
• The philanthropic millionaire helped spawn many small industries in a town where jobs were few and far between.

• engender
• breed

News & Articles

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• Midwest could see strong windstorms from derecho
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — The National Weather Service was tracking a so-called derecho weather pattern in the Midwest on Tuesday that could spawn severe windstorms in major metropolitan areas with gusts as strong as 100 mph.
  June 12, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Midwest eyeing weather pattern that could spawn severe windstorms across metro areas
  MILWAUKEE — The National Weather Service was tracking a so-called derecho weather pattern in the Midwest on Tuesday that could spawn severe windstorms in major metropolitan areas with gusts as strong as 100 mph.
  June 11, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
• Post-spawn pathway fish a tough find, easy to catch
  Over the years, I’ve encountered a somewhat curious division among bass anglers in regards to the post-spawn period.
  June 9, 2013 - The Herald Democrat

Quotes

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• Neil Gaiman in The Associated Press
  If I wanted to do 23 pages of Spawn reading a newspaper, I could,Gaiman said.
• Roseanne Barr in Winnipeg Sun
  Jon Voight your evil spawn Angelina Jolie and her vacuous hubby Brad Pitt make about $40 million a year in violent, psychopathic movies and give away three of it to starving children, trying to look as if they give a crap about humanity,Barr...
• Todd McFarlane in MTV.com
  The main character isn't Spawn, per se, it's the guy chasing Spawn,McFarlane told MTV News. "And I've always had [Leonardo] DiCaprio in the back of my mind."